This book re-examines the character of the USA and re-evaluates its relationship to the post-Cold War international order. The USA has often been seen as a model of democratic liberty, a vehement opponent of colonialism and the 'lone superpower' of the post-Cold War world. This book challenges all these views. Unlike previous studies of the post-Cold War role of the USA it connects US domestic affairs to systemic changes often characterized entirely in terms of the 'fall of Communism'.

The New World and the New World Order: Us Relative Decline, Domestic Instability in the Americas and the End of the Cold War (European and International Studies)

Politics & Social Sciences

Dark, K.R.

Politics & Government

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The New World and the New World Order: US Relative Decline, Domestic Instability in the Americas and the End of the Cold War (University of Reading European and International Studies)

Harris, A.

Archaeology uses material data to study the past, but material remains are unable to speak for themselves. They need to be interpreted. All archaeology depends upon the logical framework used to understand data: the theory which underlies interpretation. Yet archaeological theory often seems inaccessible or even irrelevant, wrapped up in jargon and filled with obscure allusions. Written especially for those with no previous knowledge of theory, this book aims to introduce the subject in a way which is both readable and which shows its relevance, and without a specific theoretical stance. The range of theoretical views on some of the themes and problems most often encountered in archaeology is outlined, introducing a wide variety of concepts and approaches equally relevant to the professional or amateur archaeologist, student, or non-specialist reader of archaeological work.

Theoretical Archaeology

History

Ancient Civilizations

Bristol Classical Press

The typical image of Dark Age Britain is that after the Romans left, developments came to a halt until the Anglo-Saxons arrived. Drawing on archaeological and other sources, the author of this study argues that the political structures persevered to become those of the Middle Ages.

Civitas to Kingdom: British Political Continuity 300-800 (Studies in the Early History of Britain)

UNKNO

The Landscape of Roman Britain

A thoroughly up-to-date study of the changing landscape of Roman Britain from the late Iron age into the post-Roman era. The book uses archaeological data and environmental evidence to reconstruct a picture of the society, economy and natural environment of the Romano-British countryside: villas, agriculture and industry. "...the Drs Dark have produced an archaeological 'first'...it is also a book that is well written and intriguingly readable' Minerva

Dark, Petra

Sutton Publishing+ltd

Religion & Spirituality

Cornell Univ Pr

Cornell University Press

This volume provides an overview of the whole range of long-term analyses in international relations. It evaluates and draws on theoretical approaches in both the humanities and social sciences - in subjects such as sociology, history, anthropology and archaeology - and recent progress in evolutionary theory and the mathematical study of complexity. The resulting analysis reinterprets processes of global political change in the past and present, and opens fresh areas of enquiry for international relations.

Waves of Time: Long-Term Change and International Relations (Politics and History in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic)

Bloomsbury Academic

Journal of Theoretical Archaeology, Volume 2, 1991 (th-rev)

Archaeology

Oxbow Books

Since the end of the Cold War, analysts of international politics have given much greater attention to issues of change. It has become increasingly clear to specialists from many fields that any understanding of large-scale political change must encompass far longer timescales than has been usual in the study of world politics, and must incorporate multi-disciplinary perspectives. This book evaluates and draws on relevant theoretical approaches from other disciplines such as sociology, economics, geography, history, anthropology and archaeology, as well as evolutionary theory and the mathematical study of complexity. Using an epistemological framework, Dark sets out a theory of long-term world political change: the theory of 'Macrodynamics'. This is then applied to historical, anthropological and archaeological data to explain the changing forms of political organization, from the earliest human societies to the late twentieth century. The resulting analysis is a reinterpretation of the processes of global political change in the past and present. This, in turn, opens new areas of enquiry in the study of international relations and has profound implications for how we understand the changing world of today.

The Waves of Time: Long-Term Change and International Relations (History and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic)

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